Interfaces and protocols for videocalls

Have you experienced connectivity issues in a video-call? That is very common in Latin America, and during the lockdowns we've got used to communicate that way. Promoting the use of free software and self mantained instances in this context is doubly difficult as in addition to the traditional 'branding' struggle, the simply neet to follow a complete conversation with no interruption seems a strong argument against any moderately autonomous solution. I say moderately because, do we really have more autonomy in mantaining our own instance of Jitsi, Big Blue Button or any other opern source software? What does autonomy depend on regarding digital technologies? Privacy? Property? Knowledge or practice?

In some internet standards bodies there is a lot of discussion on how to enhance privacy and security features for critical technologies such as Webrtc (real-time communications on the web). But is privacy compatible with our right to optimally access these kind of technologies? That is another -long term- discussion... In this talk I'll share the basic research we made in the last few months to understand how Webrtc works, and exchange with you about experiences using, installing and mantaining WebRTC software, which is perhaps the most widely used standard for video-calls these days. Here the long text https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/webrtc_en.pdf